Recruitment Process Diagnostic & Design

Recruitment Process Diagnostic and Design

Recruitment processes must be efficient, defensible and candidate-focused in a competitive hiring market. Organisations often lose strong candidates within the recruitment funnel without fully understanding why. Bottlenecks, inconsistencies, unnecessary stages, and outdated assessment criteria can increase time to hire, reduce quality of hire and negatively impact candidate experience.

Our Recruitment Process Diagnostic and Design service assesses whether your recruitment approach is robust, fair, inclusive and fit for purpose. We identify the root causes of delays, drop-off and inconsistent decision-making, and provide practical solutions that strengthen hiring outcomes.

End-to-End Recruitment Process Review

We conduct an in-depth, on-site discovery period, working closely with your internal talent team and key stakeholders to map the full recruitment lifecycle.

This includes reviewing:

• Role definition and workforce planning alignment
• Attraction strategy and channel effectiveness
• Assessment methodology and selection criteria
• Interview structure and decision-making governance
• Offer management and candidate communication

By mapping each stage, we identify inefficiencies, duplication and misalignment with role requirements and organisational priorities.

Vetting and Pre-Employment Screening Optimisation

As part of the diagnostic, we review how vetting and pre-employment screening integrate within your recruitment process.

We assess whether the timing, sequencing or communication of checks is contributing to extended time-to-hire, offer fall-through or candidate disengagement prior to the start date.

This enables you to address process risks and improve candidate confidence without changing the integrity or compliance of the checks themselves.

Tailored Recruitment Process Design

This service can be delivered organisation-wide or tailored to specific role types or hiring volumes, including early careers, apprenticeships, specialist roles, senior leadership and executive appointments.

We design streamlined recruitment frameworks that are proportionate, inclusive and aligned with the complexity of the role and the organisation's risk profile.

Improved Hiring Outcomes and Governance

The outcome is a structured, defensible recruitment process that:

• Reduces time to hire
• Improves quality and consistency of hiring decisions
• Enhances candidate experience for both successful and unsuccessful applicants
• Strengthens governance and audit readiness
• Supports fair, inclusive and evidence-based selection

By addressing root causes rather than symptoms, we help organisations build recruitment processes that stand up to scrutiny, reduce risk and deliver long-term value.

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